Monday, March 7, 2016

Former Chairman Of U.N. Climate Panel Charged With Sexual Harassment

The former chairman of the United
Nation’s climate panel, Rajendra Pachauri, has been charged with stalking and
harassing a female researcher who worked at the New Delhi environmental think
tank he’s headed for over three decades. Pachauri has denied the allegations,
though he resigned last year from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and his “think tank,” The
Energy Research Institute (TERI), according to the Press Trust of India.

Oddly
enough, he was appointed last month to another high level post at TERI, and
shortly thereafter a second woman, who had worked there for only a year, came
forward with additional allegations. Police, and TERI’s own internal complaints
committee, launched separate investigations. The TERI committee examined
evidence presented by the researcher, and questioned nearly 50 other employees.
It concluded that the allegations leveled against Pachauri were valid. Police
have charged Pachauri, 75, with sexual harassment, stalking and criminal intimidation
of the 29-year-old woman.

Pachauri
chaired the climate panel- considered the world’s premier authority on climate
science- since 2002, and accepted the
2007 Nobel Peace Prize on its behalf. (An award shared with former U.S.
Vice-President Al Gore).

Ironically,
it appears Pachauri caused an
inhospitable climate in his work
environment. As he himself was getting hotter, his underlings (and possibly his
under-things) paid the price. By refusing to be accountable for his actions,
ignoring the preponderance of the evidence against him and outright denying the
allegations, this “man of science” has branded himself a “denier.”

(The
Nobel Peace Prize is still held in high regard by progressives, in part
because, over the course of 115 years, it has been awarded to Woodrow Wilson,
Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Kofi Annan, Yasser Arafat and assorted
other terrorists, socialists, criminals, cranks and poke-noses).

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays